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Researchers Create Hypervisor-Based Tool For Blocking Rootkits.

New technology 'patches' the operating system kernel, protects it from rootkits

This article is a must read for us all.

-- Tom

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New tool seeks to block rootkits by protecting their targets.

Rootkits often replace functions provided by an operating system's kernel in order to infect a machine and obscure their presence. A paper describes a way of blocking rootkits by gathering all these functions in one place in memory, then locking down the memory.

-- Tom